Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Promontory fort - coastal
Killard, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killard
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.75116, -9.54880
- SMR number
- CL046-039----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated in an area of undulating fertile pasture which slopes gently towards the sea. There are good views from the monument and it is itself visible from some distance away. A narrow headland (Wth 10m; L 25m) is cut off on the landward side by a curving earthen bank and fosse. The bank (Wth 3.6m; H 0.8m above the interior) is round-topped. The fosse is clearest at E (Wth 2.2m; D 0.25m). A cattle gap crosses the defences at the W cliff edge. The interior is featureless and rocks jutting out from it suggest that it was once longer that it is now. (Casey 1999, 191, Clare 20)
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 21 September 2016
References
Casey, M. 1999 The coastal promontory forts of Ireland. A survey of counties Sligo, Mayo, Galway and Clare. Unpublished MA thesis, National University of Ireland, Galway.
Nearby in the register
- Promontory fort - coastalunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.